Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan .
2 With his first vote the West German elector can if he so desires make a choice solely with reference to the rival candidates ' personal qualities or their popularity .
3 That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ .
4 A hole in the mattress yielded enough stuffing to make a pillow , and Sarah lined the bottom of the box with it .
5 One eccentric old git ( who ‘ changed his appearance ’ every five or six years , handily enough ) , a string of daft ‘ assistants ’ , enough latex to make a condom for Concorde and the sort of ripping good-vs-evil yarnery that encourages grown adults to hold Dr Who conventions to this day .
6 At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference .
7 It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without .
8 And Doctor Morris — a remarkable quirk in his otherwise orderly character , I may say — has always stubbornly refused to make a will .
9 So do make a decision I would like and I want .
10 Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship .
11 Lancashire , however , rarely threatened to make a game of it .
12 He shook his head , but gamely decided to make a stab at it .
13 So I have a list here now it is n't in the notes so you might just want to make a note of this .
14 Their auditors came across alleged irregularities at a time when the Division Two outfit is already expected to make a loss of £120,000 for the season .
15 He was pleased with this image and momentarily considered making a poem out of it .
16 ‘ I just want to make a couple of movies a year . ’
17 and is that , I always feel threatened or paranoid I just want to make a point on on paragraph seven the rule in which to review the is that my understanding that review will be about the role and of the rule in which the .
18 Yes , but I just want to make a point here .
19 I would just like to make a couple of general points though regarding Selby District as a location .
20 Very briefly I would just like to make a statement that er clearly as you 'll see from our representations er er on the on the plan submission , the City Council does support the County Council 's er approach to employment land provision both for the City of York and for Greater York .
21 I 'd just like to make a point and its confirming what the young lady said down there about deregulation and although you , you
22 I 'd just like to make a point about Robert House , and Roseberry .
23 The complainant no longer needed to make a distinction between petty and serious crime ; all criminal charges were now brought before the same official .
24 ‘ I 'm just going to make a phone call , all right ? ’
25 I was just going to make a cup of tea , and now the lecky 's gone . ’
26 ‘ I 've just got to make a phone call . ’
27 In choosing your background materials you will already have made a commitment to a particular colour .
28 But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with .
29 If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision .
30 Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv .
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